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QuickviewDomestic Uncertainties by Leah Umansky
PoetryThe language slips, shifts, recalibrates and the world, shaken, is quietly remade, again and again before our eyes in this lovely, sorrowing and finally transformative book. Leah Umansky is to be congratulated for her sensitive, nuanced, consoling and deeply honest sojourn on the page. —Carole Maso$16.00 -
QuickviewDominus by Tiffany Troy
New Releases, PoetryDominus is as insistent on justice as it is baffled by its own hope, and its indomitable, distinctive voice has a power unlike that of any debut collection I’ve ever read, or of any book in recent memory. — TIMOTHY DONNELLY$18.00 -
QuickviewDown Stranger Roads by Roger Craik
PoetryNo one sounds like Roger Craik. His voice, a beguilingly cosmopolitan mix of British purebred and American mutt, is the well-stamped passport he shows at border crossings from Ashtabula to Auschwitz, from Kent State to Krakow, from Amsterdam to the far-flung outposts of the human heart. This poet is most at home when far from home, prowling the shrapneled boondocks and scrap yards of Cold War history. —George B. Bilger$16.00 -
QuickviewDrink by Laura Madeline Wiseman
PoetryI am reminded how poetry can save us, how, in the hands of such a talented writer as Wiseman, it can raise us from the depths to a cove of still water where, perhaps, who knows, the mermaids are. —Alice Friman$16.00 -
QuickviewDrink Me by Mary Kasimor
PoetryThese poems are full of “voices coming from small places / an acorn.” The result is a startling reorientation in which language and meaning are embodied and re-imbibed: “wholly is a word/you can get your mouth a/round.” These poems are a brilliant and necessary tonic. —Jonathan Minto$16.00 -
QuickviewDRIZZLE POCKET by Tim Roberts
Poetry$16.00There’s an hallucinatory freedom to this tour-de-force of sustained imagination. It’s full of a freshness, an airiness, and at the same time a relentlessness that speaks to Roberts’s careful blending of compassion and determination. This is a book with a social, spiritual, and philosophical plan, and yet they’re handled so subtly that we’re not really aware of them until we put the book down, changed. Tim Roberts is doing something brand-new here—and doing it extremely well. —COLE SWENSEN
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QuickviewE P I L O G U E by Craig Watson, edited by Ted Pearson
New Releases, PoetryEpilogue is a brilliant collection of Craig Watson’s late-stage poetry. As such, it signals neither harmony nor resolution, but intransigence, difficulty, and unresolved conflict. This dazzling, posthumous work admits the reader into a shimmering, luminous present. —Kit Robinson$18.00 -
QuickvieweaQ Oor by Andy Martrich
Poetry$16.00Martrich presents an elusive autobiographical postcard of metadata alongside thickly painted and obscured image-alphabet-code, simultaneously and beautifully quotidian, inherited, catalogued, queried, found, and personal. —Mel Nichols
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QuickviewEcho Park by Christine Hamm
PoetryFrom ""pink-spangled bikinis"" to ""your mother's stolen perfume,"" Christine Hamm's Echo Park is littered with the strange, sexy detritus of life, gorgeous life. —Kate Durbin$16.00 -
QuickviewEkstasis by Peter Valente and Kevin Killian
Poetry, SuperstarsKevin Killian and Peter Valente’s haunting collaboration Ekstasis comes on like one of those dark dreams you can’t seem to shake – it’s memory and sensations still lingering long after you’ve awoken. —Michael Salerno, artist, filmmaker, and publisher.$22.00 -
QuickviewElemental Perceptions: A Panorama by Sophie Sills
Poetry$16.00Its epigraph from Oppen (“The flaw, the gap which is the aware of being, tho it is within it. The flaw on which being presses”) suggests the epistemological concern at the center of Sophie Sills’ Elemental Perceptions: A Panorama: seeing/hearing things and events in the world, how can we know what’s really ‘there’ – that being “with a pulse . . . without a heartbeat . . . [which] is unknown,” yet which seems to be “aware” of us, seems to “press” against us. —Stephen Ratcliffe
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QuickviewEmbankments | Outtakes | Uppercuts by Richard Owens
PoetryEmbankments | Outtakes | Uppercuts brings together three discrete constellations of divers lyric constructions that testify with alacritas to the bullbaiting, cockfighting and bear beating of the present moment.$16.00
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